Re: Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:01:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94C9CB1A-5DDD-40BA-81DE-282E01C8F02F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrq79y6l.fsf@saadawi.sbszh.ch>

On Sep 27, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Christian Egli wrote:

> Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> writes:
>
>> Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I wanted to mention how great it would be to have an org-mode
>>> conference.
>
>> If many people support this idea, this is how we could do it:
>>
>> 1. list ideas of things we would do there
>
> Meet and talk about org-mode :-)
>
>> 2. find out what would be the best location/date
>
> We could probably get a developer room at next years FOSDEM[1].

Brussels?  This is close enough that I would come if this goes ahead.

> They
> provide rooms where projects can organize their own schedule, made of
> presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. You have to  
> apply[2]
> for such a developer room as they always receive more requests than
> they can host.
>
> Also of course Carsten would make for a good main track speaker[3].

Or maybe Eric Schulte about babel.  But I don't know if Eric would
come all the way from the states....

>
>> 3. figure out how much money does it requires
>
> I don't know the details but I could imagine that this would not  
> require
> any money.

Really?  That would be good.

>
>> 4. decide (or not) to go for it
>
> Write the application and see if they'll give you a room :-). If there
> is a room I'll come and do a presentation :-).
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
> [2]  http://www.fosdem.org/2011/call_for_devrooms
> [3]  http://www.fosdem.org/2011/call_for_main_speakers
>
> -- 
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
>
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